Re: [9fans] I suppose if there's no other way to do it (a quote from the tcl web site)

["LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>]

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What's so odd about it? The same comment applies to Plan9 & 9p:

"Sure, some other operating systems have programs for accessing web or ftp
sites, or looking inside zip files. But how many provide an open ended
and extensible system that allows you to access any such resource using
the same I/O commands you'd use with regular disk files?"

On 8/10/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
>
> "Sure, some other languages have libraries for accessing web or ftp
> sites, or looking inside zip files. But how many provide an open ended
> and extensible system that allows you to access any such resource using
> the same I/O commands you'd use with regular disk files?"
>
> hmm. in the language library? Well, I guess if that's all you can do ...
> but this is a really odd quote.
>
> And I actually like tcl ...
>
> ron
>



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